American History

The Americans past on social, economic and political experiences is almost not regarded as history anymore by most of the local residents as well as in the world population. Though some a few individuals might not be aware of the calamities and difficulty times that the U.S residents went through, its overt that most of the events which begun during the late 1920s and almost covered the entire period of the next decade are still fresh in the minds of many Americans. According to the historical canons, the 1930s great depression is believed to have crept in most of the nations at time when they had high optimism of progress and prosperity. This was therefore the most unexpected change ever that besieged the world developmental growth rate albeit diversifying the innovativeness and invention on many sectors (Nash, 1996).

Priority to the eve that ushered in the era of the great depression, the American were a bit feeble in their spirit, apparently due to the sufferings of the grievous war that had ended with the conception of numerous anti-social behaviors. While some leaders, economist and other experts thought that the cause of the great depression of the time was due to the misappropriate operations of the international stock markets, this causal factors could not have exactly be defined. To some extend, the cause of the great depression in the united state might have been affected by the social change in one way or another. In 1920s, several activists and lobby groups for both children and women liberties had escalated their activities, implying that compelling of the nation to invest more on the improvement of the social amenities for the ignored and neglected minor communities (Nash, 1996).

With the increased need to eradicate those anti-social behaviors including inhumane treatment such as child labor, women enslavement at workplace, eradication of prostitutions or activities in the brothels and beauty centre among others might greatly have affected the nations expenditure. Looking at this past, the events were transformative efforts towards attaining a better world, which not only entailed the change in the social behaviors but the change in the way of governance and leadership. The great depression might have thus a great negative in effects on the ideology of progress it may have impeded the implementation of the rightful policies. For the Americans, they actually longed for greater effectiveness in the government operations, particularly in tenets which gave all of them equality and freedom.

On the precise study of the American developmental strategies preceding the great depression, the Americans had no false dream of their prosperity since the early economic, social and political developmental changes of 1920s. It was vividly depicted that various non-governmental organization together with other non-informal groups had organized themselves to bring a change to the American lives. The labor group movement organizations and the lobby groups acting as the voice for the favor of the minor groups, the weak andor the enslaved fought for equality. The rise of such group was triggered by the need to address the need of the unevenly distributed wealth among different groups and communities. What this tells us is that the blame of the great depression should not be put on the institutions handling matters on the world stock markets, but more of the causes can are traced in the poor political and economic systems fraught of corrupt activities both at the higher governmental ranks to the lowest ones including those of the organizations dealing closely with ruling government such as the municipal authorities. As evidenced, several policies of the 1920s including the healthy food security were already formulated, but surprisingly were rather partial favoring the people of high class and to some little extend people hailing from the group of middle class (Nash, 1996).

It was hard times of the great depressions when Roosevelt came into throne.  The Roosevelts rise to the highest seat was not linked with any of the economic or political policy promises of the period, a fact indicating that the great depression was a mammoth that rocked the nation unexpectedly. Under the assumption this was something that had occurred before, it would have been used a major subject in the political campaigns, but little is revealed to show its employment in the political field. Whether this was a major political point of focus or not is not of significant importance, rather the review of the measures taken by Roosevelt are crucial to the bringing of equality and freedom change to the U.S citizens.

The takeover of the American throne by Roosevelt was at time when the state was grappling with numerous social and economic challenges. In order to disentangle the Americans from the economic calamitiesstruggles, Roosevelt believed in strategy which he referred to as the New Deal. This New Deal strategy was blurred defined in its own nature though resulted to great changes in the way of handling the political, economic and social problems that had plagued the nation at that time. In the endeavor of addressing the problems, Roosevelt encouraged the enactment of policies which were objectively geared towards the restoration of the trust from the publiccitizens. Following these challenges, changes were made concerning the child labors but which did yield much positive improvement of the social life of the young. Due to the conservative nature of the legislation, large proportion of the young continued to suffer in the industrial sector and plantation farming working to earning their leaving and support the lives of other members of the families they hailed from (Nash, 1996).

Apart from the child labor legations, the high unemployment was also closely linked with a few other problems necessitating formulation of policies, which addressed or sought to find solution for a healthy leaving. Considering such factor of food scarcity and the resultants problem of malnutrition diseases, Roosevelt felt it necessary to provide citizens with a better healthy service through the enactment of the drug policy. This meant the New Deal though unplanned or unstructured as it mighty have been, it accentuated on political advancement of the tasks of those elected in the federal government. More so, it may also be argued that through the open system of the New Deal, it appeared Roosevelt rule was vesting more powers to the government rather than decentralizing the powers (Nash, 1996).

The new deal played a major role in enhancing the integral development and survival of the American. While most of the people thought of using the mechanized systems to deal with food scarcity and improve agricultural productivity, the New Deal never employed such ways as opposed to the industrialization era. Roosevelt seemed to be antagonistic on the use of mechanized system perhaps in the fear that such systems would have led to escalation of unemployment situation in the U.S.

The Roosevelt government felt the burden of striving to rescue of the devastated economy of the nation. This compelled it to incorporate the nations community in rebuilding of the country economy through ensuring the establishment of adequate food production. It therefore supported the farmers with provision of farm tools as well as providing them with relief foods throughout the period of the great depression. Roosevelt rule thus gave a priority to what appeared to many a cost-sharing system between the government and the society. Undoubtedly, the provision of basic foods and drug to the poverty stricken households by various governmental organizations comprising of major federal emergency agencies also portrayed a humanitarian act of the government, and were the most important means of help the maintaining and recovery of the countrys economy. This was achieved through the establishment of several aids agencies, which kept on increase year after year at unprecedented rate, which showed the governments efforts towards attaining greater effectiveness in operations, and conservation of citizens rights of access to basic needs.

Furthermore, unlike the present business world, the U.S government worked closely with the world business owners in the country to ensure that the poor were protected from exploitation. The government check on the agricultural products price helped mitigate the severity of food inaccessibility to the locals, but they did this prudently by implementing subsidiary funding or other special funding in the production of such basic goods or delivery of the services. With Roosevelt efforts having positive impact since the conception of the New Deal, he however had the greatest blow in 1937 when the setbacks on the enactments of the womens suffrage and child slavery. The optimism of the economy rescue was thus heavily hit at the end the 1930s decade most probably by the preparation of the impending WWII (Nash, 1996).

Finally, I conclude that the American early experience of the great depression in 1930s and the New Deal had profound effects on the lives of many citizens, and most of the events that happened from 1900-1945 aimed at bringing modernity to the people. The great depression in 1930s and the New Deal set the face to development of the Americas economy by eliminating the dependencies on the foreign or imported commodities such as food stuffs. Though the new deal may be treated with less regards, its of paramount importance in the establishment of core governmental agencies and in the streamlining of federal operations.